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Welcome to another issue of BetterDev! This week I come across Colmi, a smart ring where you can write your own software to interact with it. It’s also have a $12.51 deal on AliExpress so very affordable to toy around with hardware.
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WarpStream is a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka that has no interzone networking fees, no disks to manage and requires zero cross-account IAM access, so raw data never leaves your environment. You’ll never again have to do things like partition or broker rebalancing, deal with snapshot replication issues or worry about over-provisioning, as auto-scaling is automatic and you’re always right-sized. Join customers that have saved over 80% by replacing self-hosted Kafka and MSK with WarpStream. Sign up for a free WarpStream account and get $400 in credits that never expire.
The first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion monthly active users. While they were unable to develop an attack to completely defeat WeChat’s encryption, the implementation is inconsistent with the level of cryptography you would expect in an app used by a billion users, such as its use of deterministic IVs and lack of forward secrecy.
Colmi is a cheap (as in $20) “smart ring” / fitness wearable that includes the following sensors: Accelerometer, sleep tracking, gestures, heart rate and blood oxygen. The coolest thing is you can write your own client to interact with it through bluetooth.
How cool it’s to setup a website run on solar powered at home? Follow this journey.
Uber upgraded their databae from 5.7 to 8.0. If you had use Uber app, you can use the app is no joke. Routing driver, provide real time upgrade etc. A very complicated app. The strategy that they used to upgraded it is worth a read for us. One important point is not being able to rollback once a v8.0 node is promoted to primary. There is risk and they careful testing to accept that risk.
SQLite got a lot of attention recently. If you ever try to use it for some high load you most likely disappointed at its performance. In this post we will look at a few sensible default to help that.
Many a beginner falls into the trap of trigger recursion at some point. Usually, the solution is to avoid recursion at all. But for some use cases, you may have to handle trigger recursion. This article tells you what you need to know about the topic. If you were ever troubled by the error message “stack depth limit exceeded”, here is the solution.
There are two classes of breakage that can occur when applying database migrations: Migrations that make incompatible changes to the schema, breaking client applications, Migrations that lock a database object for an unacceptable amount of time, causing the application to become unavailable as reads and writes start to fail. Today we’re going to talk about the second type of breakage: how long running queries together with DDL statements can lock out reads and writes from a table, causing application downtime.
Resolve DNS on k8s is a bit messy. For convenience there is a few way to hit a servie with just a name, a name and namespace or the cluster domain. What is the rule there?
After Turkey banned Discord, I had to jump through some hoops, fix my VPN, and learn a bit about how DNS works. Today I’m here to share what I have learned while trying to… you know. Find a way to use Discord again. Surprisingly, this ban ended up being a positive experience for me.
In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple chat interface that allows users to upload a PDF, retrieve its content using OpenAI’s API, and display the responses in a chat-like interface using Streamlit. W
Attempt to draw a figure that looks like made out of clay. We’ll learn: Positioning, Gradient, mask, Clip-path and more.
With new of Bitwarden moving to close source, this is an alternative client for the Bitwarden® platform, created to provide the best user experience possible.
a modular, cross-platform, general-purpose Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), written in Rust.
Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.
a PostgreSQL extension to use Groonga as index. PGroonga makes PostgreSQL fast full text search platform for all languages!
If you ever want a way to export and load parquet file like how BigQuery does it, this finally happens for PostgreSQL.
A new DSL and server for AI agents and multi-step tasks
Free and Open Source Alternative to Splitwise. Share expenses with your friends and family.
Llama3.1 learns to Listen
A TTS solution that support English, Japanaese, Korenan, Chinese, French, German, Arabic and Spanish. Including UI and WEBUI. Very well document on self-hosted setup too
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